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I was always laughing in church.

Tom Waits

Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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Brain Built Drive Himself Road Specialist Vision Willing
I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.
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Evening Myself Train
I put food on the table and roof overhead. But I’d trade it all tomorrow for the highway instead.
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Food High Myself Table Trade
You learn as much from your kids as they learn from you.
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Children Learning Yourself
There’s no prayer like desire.
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Desire One Liner Prayer
All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes
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Donut Name Prostitute Sound
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
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Abundance Bury Happiness Information Quantity Wealth Weight
It’s very hard to stop doing things you’re used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.
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Avoid Habit Hard Old Scatter Stop Togetherness Yourself
All that you’ve loved is all you own.
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Love One Liner Yourself
Not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at.
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Fall Kind Yourself
Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart.
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Bad Body Drink Heart Myself
The fact is most of the things that people know about me are made up. My own life is backstage. So what you “know” about me is only what I allowed you to know about me.
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Allow Fact Myself People Rumor Yourself
I’ll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.
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Lying Myself Past Secret
I like vocal word stuff. But I don’t always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It’s more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It’s closest to the choreography of a bee. You’re freer.
TOM WAITS

Fingers Freedom Instrument Myself Vocal Word
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
TOM WAITS

Guard Life Myself Ocean Play

I was always laughing in church.

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